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UFC President Dana White has not spoken to GSP since the new drug-testing policy was announced but did not appear confident about the former champion’s potential return to the octagon. Several months ago, former UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre revealed that he would never return to professional competition until his employers implemented third party drug testing. So naturally, when the UFC announced that they would implement comprehensive out-of-competition random performance enhanc read news >>

Even with UFC's new rigorous drug testing policy, former longtime welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre and UFC President Dana White have not spoken about a potential Octagon return for "Rush." White also noted he won't "pressure" GSP to come back. read news >>

When longtime UFC champion Georges St-Pierre decided to take a break from MMA, he cited a performance-enhancing drug problem and the UFC’s inadequate drug testing as two of his primary reasons.Filed under: News, UFC, Videos read news >>

With Ronda Rousey’s win over Cat Zingano in the main event of UFC 184, she has once again shown an amazing ability to dominate the best that her division has to offer.Filed under: News, UFC read news >>

"Clearly a big step in the right direction for our sport." -- Georges St-Pierre. Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) President Dana White and company CEO, Lorenzo Fertitta, recently announced during a special press conference (see it here) that the world's largest mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion will rev up it's fight against performance-enhancing-drugs (PEDs). Among the changes White and Co. are planning to implement moving forward is to test every single fighter on every card from here on read news >>

The UFC's press conference discussing its plans to overhaul its drug-testing procedures is the talk of the MMA universe right now, and former UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre definitely seems to like what he's hearing. Rush took to Twitter to share his thoughts on the new developments: Very happy to learn about the UFC announcing a new comprehensive random PED testing. — Georges St-Pierre (@GeorgesStPierre) February 18, 2015 Clearly a big step in the right direction for our sport. — G read news >>

Georges St-Pierre has given his stamp of approval of the UFC's planned drug-testing reform. The former UFC welterweight champion, currently on sabbatical from fighting, tweeted Wednesday that the UFC's planned overhaul of its drug-testing policy is a "big step in the right direction for our sport." One of the reasons St-Pierre has cited for his absence is that he's unhappy with the current PED situation in MMA and will only return if there are sweeping changes in the testing process. The UFC's a read news >>

Former welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre has weighed in with his thoughts on the UFC newly announced increased drug testing program, and it sounds like the former champ is in favor. On Wednesday, February 18th, the UFC announced a brand new drug testing policy, to take effect July 1st of 2015. The policy would put more money behind out of competition testing, especially in markets without their own commission oversight, as well as pushing commissions for harsher penalties (as much as 4 yea read news >>

Just as it seemed like a colossal fight between former middleweight champ Anderson Silva and erstwhile welterweight champ Georges St-Pierre might finally have some inroads, Silva’s positive drug test threw a monkey wrench into things. Silva popped positive for two different kinds of steroids -- drostanolone and androstane -- in an out-of-competition test given on Jan. 9 leading up to his comeback fight against Nick Diaz at UFC 183. That effectively put any talk of a GSP-Silva fight to rest.And e read news >>

According to Georges St-Pierre he was offered a bout against Anderson Silva, but had no interest in making a return to a sport that is not clean. Georges St-Pierre recently admitted that he was indeed offered a super fight against Anderson Silva prior to the former middleweight's champ steroid scandal. During an apperance at the MMA Hour GSP says he declined the bout and is not interested in a return just yet: "(Dana White) told me to fight in Montreal and he also texted me to see if I was inter read news >>